Markus Kuhn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Antiword is available from
> 
>   http://www.winfield.demon.nl/
> 
> and provides significantly better DOC -> plaintext conversion
> than any Micorsoft product.

Unfortunately, this is not true.  It fails badly on Word documents
with embedded change history, like any other third-party converter
I've tested so far.  This can be quite dangerous because the extracted
plaintext can differ substantially from what a Word users sees on the
screen.
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